When you get asked a question such as whether you prefer this or that, you have an answer. The form of the question insists that you have an answer and in the asking makes it so.
Let's say for the sake of argument that you don't have an opinion strong enough that you're comfortable applying the term "your opinion" to it. You still have an opinion.
Let's say you don't know what your opinion of it is because it is right on the threshold of your level of knowledge and an infinitesimal instant from now it will suddenly, for the first time, spring into being as a fresh baby opinion. It's still there, in incubation phase, you merely have not become aware of it yet.
Let's say that you don't even know what either of the two things are. You still have a potential preference which is real and will effect your judgment to a certain end at such time as you realise what the question means.
Let's say the potential differential is so small that it is only a certain neuron firing or not firing. The chemical signals which affect that decision and the circumstances under which they will fire is still there. That's still a reason to choose one answer rather than the other. It's just the smallest part of that decision.
Or is it? Let's say the reason that neuron fires to the left instead of to the right was balanced on the outcome of a nearby molecule being hit by a passing Plankt Length (the smallest possible sized thing in the universe according to physics).
Do you see the point? Do you see the implications?
Another example would be to compare the center of the scale to be what you believe others think and your opinion to be on one or the other side of it.
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